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This time last year, Gary Neal had more on his mind than basketball. While playing for La Salle University, he was fighting rape and sexual assault charges. And it wasn’t until last month that those charges were dropped. Now his thoughts are focused on one thing — playing…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh guard Sara Ellis swished 3-pointers off the dribble, and sometimes from another area code. She also had a sweet short-range game against Fairfield in the nightcap of the ninth annual Christmas City Classic, Thursday night at Stabler Arena. She was so confident in her…
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Read on mcall.com →When Tim Frisby’s life story is depicted on the silver screen, the Allentown native wouldn’t mind playing a cameo role in the movie. But Frisby, a 40-year-old backup wide receiver at the University of South Carolina, won’t consider any motion picture deal until after the…
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Read on mcall.com →Tim Massaquoi has had touchdown receptions at Michigan Stadium, played in two Rose Bowls and has been named the Big Ten’s best tight end. But the former Parkland High star’s proudest moment over the last five years did not come on a football field. Two weeks ago, with his mother…
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Read on mcall.com →A jury trying to decide what type of team Lehigh will be once Patriot League play begins next month would probably end up hung. It’s hard to tell, because senior guard Joe Knight, a solid scorer, passer and defender, won’t make his season debut until a Jan. 11 game against Navy…
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Read on mcall.com →Andres Morales gave his mother, father, brothers, and sister Rutgers paraphernalia for Christmas gifts on Sunday. Then, the all-state and Morning Call all-area linebacker from Liberty asked them if they could figure out which college he had orally committed to attend next fall.…
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Read on mcall.com →Joe Semanoff has enjoyed the luxuries of a casino hotel in Las Vegas this week. The former standout running back from Lehighton is a sophomore backup at Brigham Young, which plays California in the Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl tonight. By game time, Semanoff will have to…
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Read on mcall.com →Each December, Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon schedules a Division III team that he hopes will provide an easy victory. He’s smart for doing it, since the game is scheduled during a period when practice is voluntary because of exams. “For a number of them we…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehighton running back Robbie Frey often ran by, and away from, linemen during a 2,000-yard season. Central Catholic offensive lineman Chris Waldron bowled over opposing linemen, and as a result, exceeded his own expectations in helping to clear the way for an offense that…
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Read on mcall.com →George Washington is averaging 84 points per game, nine more than any other Atlantic 10 team, but the Colonials have yet to play a league team. When they do, the high-flying Colonials may not score with such ease. Richmond (50.5) and Temple (52.1) have the top two scoring…
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Read on mcall.com →Andrew Lee took a few minutes away from watching King Kong at a movie theater Saturday night to reflect on some of the beast-like things he and co-defensive star, linebacker Andres Morales, did this season for Liberty. For Lee, there was the PIAA Class 4A Eastern final against…
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Read on mcall.com →The biggest game of his coaching career, the biggest in school history, ended with Liberty getting drubbed 49-10 in the PIAA Class 4A championship game last week in Hershey, but coach Tim Moncman did not shed a tear. Not in front of his players, not away from them. After the…
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Read on mcall.com →Dan Persa was knocked down, intercepted, disheartened and even defeated in big games this season, but the Liberty junior kept coming back with pinpoint passing and breakaway speed to enjoy the most prolific season for a quarterback in school history. He finished with school…
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Read on mcall.com →There was much preseason hype surrounding the Lehigh women’s basketball team. In fact, the Mountain Hawks were picked to finish second in the Patriot League. And while the league’s sports information directors and coaches predicted the No. 2 finish, the Lehigh women may have had…
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Read on mcall.com →A little more than 12 hours after losing in the PIAA Class 4A title game, a few Liberty players engaged in a snowball fight inside Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. They were still disconsolate after losing 49-10 to McKeesport on Saturday night in Hershey. But the tears…
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Read on mcall.com →The flashbacks have been re-occuring throughout the season for Wilson wideout Adam Thomas. Flashbacks of how it used to be when he and his best friend, Wilson quarterback D.J. Lenehan, ran roughshod over youth league defenses. But the days of being standout youth players in…
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Read on mcall.com →The PIAA board of directors did not bend Saturday morning. The board voted by a 22-5 margin not to accept Bethlehem Area School District superintendent Joseph A. Lewis’ proposal to amend Section B of Article XIII of the PIAA bylaws. As a result, the high school career of…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty ran into a machine in the PIAA Class 4A championship Saturday night at Hersheypark Stadium. McKeesport was the machine, especially on defense. The Tigers were superbly fast, from the quarterback to the tailbacks, and even to the kicker, who kept trotting onto the field…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty quarterback Dan Persa showed up at Carl’s Corner steak and sub shop a few blocks from school earlier this week and saw an NBC-10 television reporter interviewing the owner about the football team Persa has helped lead to the PIAA Class 4A championship game. He was awed.…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s going to come down to the final hour for Liberty senior Andres Morales, who still hopes he’ll be able to close out his high school career playing for the PIAA Class 4A title Saturday night in Hershey. Morales was ejected from last weekend’s game by official Ted Deptula for…
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Read on mcall.com →They made jokes, lots of them. They will do so again tonight, and maybe even on Saturday before making the first-ever trip to Hershey for a Bethlehem Area School District team to play for a PIAA football championship. Pressure, you see, is easier to deal with when you share…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty quarterback Dan Persa tends to have as much fun as the kids he meets at the playground near his house. “Me and my friends will go there and just try to hit random objects [with a football],” Persa said. “I’ll hit the top bar of the swing set, then I’ll try to throw it at…
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Read on mcall.com →An error in judgment was made by a PIAA official, and it will probably prevent Liberty senior Andres Morales from playing in the PIAA Class 4A championship Saturday in Hershey. It’s a game he’s dreamed about playing in his whole life, and he will spend tonight doing what he has…
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Read on mcall.com →COLLEGES NEW HAMPSHIRE 12-1, 7-1 (Atlantic 10) Lost to Northern Iowa 24-21 NCAA Division I-AA quarterfinals Jeff Pammer (Northampton) So. FS, 6-0, 210. Season: Team-high 53 solo tackles, 61 assists, one blocked kick, one interception, two pass break ups. WEST VIRGINIA 10-1, 7-0…
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